“‘What can be da meaning of dis?’ howled Charlotte, as soon as he was gone. ‘Mah dear Ewiza, he muss be love you, aw he never wuh have called in dis famiwiar way.’” Charlotte Lucas turns into a Regency zombie and appears to channel the words of Mammy in Gone With the Wind. Jane Austen weeps.

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